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Twitter, Inc. is a real-time information network of connected users. At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called Tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on a user's profile page. Twitter, Inc. was established in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
| Year | ≤ '12 | '13 | '14 | '15 | '16 | '17 | T | |
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| Buy (4.0/yr) | # | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | - | 26 |
| vol | $40M | $388M | $100M | $30M | $558M | |||
| Sell (0.2/yr) | # | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| 27 | ||||||||
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| Buy | # | TOTAL |
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| Largest |
MoPub $350M (2013-09-09) |
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According to our data here at Mergr, Twitter has acquired 26 companies, including 21 in the last 5 years. It has also divested 1 asset.
Twitter’s largest acquisition to date was in 2013, when it acquired MoPub for $350M. Twitter has acquired in 8 different US states, and 3 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include internet software and services (74%) and software (16%).
When analyzing the internet software and services sector as a whole, according to Mergr, in the last 3 years, there are 1188 internet software and services companies that have made at least 1 acquisition, 57 have acquired at least 5 companies, and 9 have acquired more than 10 companies. The most prolific strategic internet software and services acquirer over the past 3 years is Google, with 28 acquisitions. The most prolific private equity acquirer in the internet software and services sector over the past 3 years is Vista Equity Partners with 13 platform acquisitions.
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